Tours @ Edgar Allan Poe NHS

Raven Beer will be sold...

...And Drank.

Talks and performances.

Thanks for visiting!

This site will contain all the important details about the upcoming Poe Arts Festival:

When: Friday October 26th, 2018 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Where: Main registration: @ 611 Spring Garden in the sponsoring German Society of Pennsylvania

In conjunction with the Society's Poe Arts Festival,

The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site will be open from 5:00--9:00 p.m. Visitors may explore the historic home and exhibits and hear dramatic re-telling of "The Black Cat" in the cellar and hear Edgar Poe recite his favorite poems.”

"THE CASK OF APPLE-TILLADO: EXPLORING LIFE AFTER DEATH THROUGH APPLE CIDER"

Join Philadelphia's favorite drinks author Marnie Old for a seated, guided tasting of alcoholic apple ciders that sketches the extraordinary history and delicious style range of one of the most common American tipples available in Edgar Allan Poe's lifetime. Discover the disquieting truth, stranger than fiction, of the undead nature of all fermented drinks, which proved so inspiring to the celebrated author... $25 per person

Poe Head

Poe Head will be selling there awesome Poe Inspired merchandise

Poe Movies

Poe Movies all be featuring 2 Poe films, The Cask of Amontillado and The Raven.

Get Your Costume on

The German Society's historic
1889 headquarters building will provide participants with a variety of arts,
performances, talks, tours, and activities that celebrate Poe and his artistic
legacy.

Poe, one of the
most important authors this country has ever produced, continues to be
influential both here and in Europe. He is best known for his poetry and
short stories, particularly his tales of the macabre. He was the inventor
of detective fiction and one of the nation's first short story writers.

Edgar Allan Poe NHS,
located at 532 North 7th Street, is where he lived with his family in 1843.

Its three floors
and basement rooms allow visitors to come in contact with the spaces where he
lived and wrote some of his most important works and struggled with poverty,
his wife Virginia’s grave illness and his own personal demons.

Special tours of
the house after dark will feature actors reciting some of the artist’s greatest
works.

The German Society, offers a remarkable historic
facility for this event with its grand Horner Library, the Barthelmes Auditorium
and the basement ratskeller.